[OLPC-NYC] Fwd: [support-gang] DC-area public housing kids test George Hunt's XoPhoto

Fri Nov 5 14:30:30 EDT 2010

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From: Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [support-gang] DC-area public housing kids test George Hunt's
XoPhoto
To: "Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to \"help AT
laptop.org\"" <support-gang at lists.laptop.org>
Cc: Joanne Miller <jmillerphoto at earthlink.net>, Support Gangsters <
support-gang at laptop.org>

Please do brainstorm the NYC angle with George!

Joanne and I have already talked about taking the bus up to meet with George
and anyone else. We're going into cold weather quickly, but If OLPC NY could
select a nice indoor garden that would allow a group of inner city kids to
do a photo walk, we might be able to do a photo walk up there in the coming
weeks.

Even cooler would be to do simultaneous photo walks in DC and NYC with Skype
Video linking the two groups! I've got the gear for that on my end.

Mike

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Marife Mago <marife.mago at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> OLPC_NYC we'll have a planning meeting this Saturday and this will be  a
> great idea to do as an event activity as part of our  XOphoto marketing.
>
> I'll share this with the group, if they're up to doing a similar activity
> anyway the man behind the xophoto George Hunt is with the team. :)
>
> Awesome idea and pictures!
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> Thanks for the plug and dispatch from Haiti. Yes, these--and all
>> kids--need to have regular time to sense, reflect and create. Even when
>> survival is the priority.
>>
>> I posted a package of links, photos and videos in a Flickr gallery here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157625300840584/with/5141142801/
>>
>> Alas, the only dimension I didn't cover thoroughly was live tweeting.
>> Between taking photos to document and helping the kids, I was hopping!
>>
>> Be safe down there!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> P.S. SJ: OLPC blog post please?
>>
>>
>>   On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>>   Kids here in Haiti are ready for XoPhoto please, if we can please
>>> bring Into Popular Distribution, as Mike Lee & Joanne Miller below!
>>>
>>> Even if kids in this town where I'm standing (
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite-Rivi%C3%A8re-de-Nippes) weren't
>>> increasingly getting Internet through a benefactor I just met.  Several
>>> older Haitian kids I saw today were obsessed with taking photos, but unable
>>> to integrate them into Etoys & all other storytelling on their XOs.  Such a
>>> shame.  As bad as me running around seeing 2 of the most vivid countries
>>> I've seen in my life (DR+Haiti) without a cam.  But at least a 1AM Haitian
>>> marching brass bands just right now passed me by celebrating the "1st day of
>>> autumn".  Haitians are tired of cholera, hurricanes and earthquakes.  So are
>>> installing solar+Internet on the roof of their 900-kid school's roof here
>>> instead.  Let's hope it all works, unlike the generator they could not get
>>> working this holiday morning, til I bought them gasoline and fired it up
>>> with an old rope just long enough for their kids to dazzle us with
>>> on-the-spot Etoys animations and yes, shock us with porno on their
>>> cellphones..
>>>
>>> But no time to write, let alone meditate, in this seas of
>>> humanity+greenery+water+sewage+mosquitos+gratefulness+humble-while-demanding-hope
>>> as we drive through a few more beautiful lush rivers, and meet a pile more
>>> smalltime school leaders, on the way to Ground Zero tomorrow, but Tim will
>>> hopefully catch up blogging by weekend here:
>>> http://waveplace.com/news/blog/  PS don't tell anyone I'm actually using
>>> a cellphone for the 1st time in my life as here it's a survival issue.. Like
>>> http://olpcMAP.net <http://olpcmap.net/> in its very own way....
>>>
>>>
>>>   Subject: Re: OLPC Photography Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 01:38:39 -0400 From:
>>> Mike Lee <curiouslee at gmail.com> <curiouslee at gmail.com> To: George Hunt
>>> <georgejhunt at gmail.com> <georgejhunt at gmail.com>, Adam Holt
>>> <holt at laptop.org> <holt at laptop.org>
>>>
>>> Joanne and I (along with Cici!) are doing our first PhotoKids nature
>>> walk tomorrow at the Smithsonian Castle.
>>>
>>> The Housing Opportunities Commission sent out a press release yesterday:
>>>
>>> ===================================
>>>
>>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>>>
>>> Monday, November 1, 2010
>>>
>>> CONTACT:
>>> Susan Krimer Yancy
>>> 240-773-9060; cell: 301-661-3921
>>> Joanne Miller: 301-758-4870
>>>
>>> MEDIA ADVISORY
>>>
>>> YOUNG RESIDENTS FROM GAITHERSURG PUBLIC HOUSING TO TEST LAPTOPS
>>> FOR CHILDREN IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
>>>
>>> WHEN: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2010, 12:30 – 2 P.M.
>>> WHERE: NATIONAL MALL NEAR ENID HAUPT PUBLIC GARDEN
>>> (1050 Independence Ave., S.W., on the grounds near the Sackler
>>> Museum and the National Museum of African Art)
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, November 2, 2010, ten young residents of the Housing
>>> Opportunities Commission’s
>>> (HOC) subsidized housing in Gaithersburg, will travel to the National
>>> Mall in Washington, D.C.
>>> to help test a photography application on special “XO” laptops that
>>> are given to children in third
>>> world countries by the “One Laptop Per Child” nonprofit organization.
>>>
>>> All of the children going to the Mall are former participants in
>>> “PhotoKids,” a photography
>>> program coordinated by the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery
>>> County in collaboration
>>> with HOC and professional photographer/artist/teacher, Joanne Miller.
>>>
>>> After establishing a connection to the Internet on the Mall, the young
>>> photographers will upload
>>> their photographs to the XO computers to test the photography software
>>> on the machines. Their
>>> feedback will help the program designer improve the software for use
>>> by children around the
>>> world. The photos will be posted on the Arts and Humanities Council of
>>> Montgomery County
>>> website.
>>>
>>> “One Laptop Per Child” was created by Nicholas Negroponte and others
>>> from the MIT Media Lab
>>> to design, manufacture and distribute laptop computers that are
>>> inexpensive enough to provide
>>> every child in the world access to knowledge and modern forms of education.
>>>
>>> “Photo Kids” was made possible by the generous support of the Arts and
>>> Humanities Council of
>>> Montgomery County, the Montgomery County Employee Giving Campaign and
>>> Sovereign Bank
>>> Foundation for the Arts.
>>>
>>> ###
>>>
>>> INTERVIEW AND PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES
>>>
>>>
>>> =========================================
>>>
>>>
>>> And a copy of it is on Scribd:
>>> http://scr.bi/boFxub
>>>
>>> I'll be posting our adventures to Twitter:
>>> http://twitter.com/curiouslee
>>>
>>> and
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157624954544779/with/5047527735/
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
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